Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Last Shogun In this remarkable account of the life of Japan's last Shogun, the arrival of U.S. Commodore Perry's squadron is shown to be the spark that ignited the cataclysm that reached its climax with the fall of the Shogunate in 1868. This brought a 17 year-old boy emperor from the seclusion of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto to preside over what became a political and cultural revolution: with this, Japan's ...
Full description- Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
- Published: 20 August 2004
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Historical Fiction | Asian History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
- ISBN 13: 9781568363561 ISBN 10: 1568363567
- Sales rank: 143,507
Full description for Last Shogun
In this remarkable account of the life of Japan's last Shogun, the arrival of U.S. Commodore Perry's squadron is shown to be the spark that ignited the cataclysm that reached its climax with the fall of the Shogunate in 1868. This brought a 17 year-old boy emperor from the seclusion of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto to preside over what became a political and cultural revolution: with this, Japan's extraordinary modernisation began in earnest.
